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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]For the kids safety, parents  and community alike[/b]

Regardless of low mortality and mild manifestation of coronavirus in children, there are many children with underlying condition that will be in the high risk group.

Also considering demographics reality most of middle and high schoolers have parents and grandparents in 60+ group that is now in CDC stay home for preventive measures recommendation group.
These parents and grandparents live together  with kids often in one household, many has lots of other risk factors at this age. Continued possible exposure of  kids at schools  put their caregivers at extreme risk for contraction and complications and possible death.
Kids can bring it home.

New CDC guidance says older adults should 'stay at home as much as possible' due to coronavirus
[b]Early data suggests older people are twice as likely to have serious illness from the novel coronavirus, according to the CDC.[/b]

[b]This ought to be top of mind for people over 60,[/b] and those with underlying health problems, such as heart or lung disease, diabetes, or compromised immune systems," Schaffner added. "The single most important thing you can do to avoid the virus is reduce your face to face contact with people."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/health/coronavirus-older-people-social-distancing/index.html
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I also posted about quarantining in another thread:

It’s more complex than that. Automatically quarantining people without knowledge of the mode of transmission, and without considering the psychological and social effects, which impact on compliance, may be ineffective and it may be unwarranted.

The example of SARS and the attempt in Toronto to control it with mass quarantine - 100 people for every SARS case. It didn’t work in the case of SARS because it was being transmitted mostly at hospitals, not in the community, it was infectious only when the patient was clinically ill, and only about half the people complied. It was health care workers providing care for these patients, before PPE became standard, who were at risk. SARS led to the now mandatory practice of PPE in care facilities.

BUT, this is NOT to say that it shouldn’t be done for Coronavirus. All I’m saying that we should NOT jump to the conclusion that mass quarantine will stop an outbreak.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2094974/#B6

An outbreak should meet the following three criteria for quarantine to be a useful measure of disease control:

first, people likely to be incubating the infection must be efficiently and effectively identified;

second, those people must comply with the conditions of quarantine; and

third, the infectious disease in question must be transmissible in its presymptomatic or early symptomatic stages.

The use of quarantine in the Toronto outbreak failed on all three counts.

SARS quarantine in Toronto was both inefficient and ineffective. It was massive in scale. Toronto public health authorities quarantined approximately 100 people for each SARS case, while Beijing public health quarantined about 12 people for each SARS case. An analysis of the efficiency of quarantine in the Beijing outbreak conducted by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that quarantine could have been reduced by two-thirds (four people per SARS case), without compromising effectiveness if authorities had "focused only on persons who had contact with an actively ill SARS patient" (2). 
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